Inquiry
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| - | [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] will be a hundred coming Friday. I'm trying to find a good angle to approach his work. So far it is [[structure]], [[anthropologica]] and [[taboo]]. | ||
| - | The stucture angle leads to [[structuralism]], a [[French theory|French intellectual movement]] of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, based on [[Russian Formalism]] and the [[Prague school of structuralism]]. | + | # The act of [[inquiring]]; a seeking of information by asking questions; [[interrogation]]; a [[question]] or questioning. |
| - | + | # Search for [[truth]], [[information]], or [[knowledge]]; [[examination]] of facts or principles; research; [[investigation]]; as, physical inquiries. | |
| - | That Claude Lévi-Strauss sought to investigate structures became apparent with the publication of his debut work ''[[The Elementary Structures of Kinship]]'' (1949). The word structure in its title betrays its conceptual affiliations to what was later to be called [[structuralism]]. | + | '''Inquiry''' or '''enquiry''' is any process that has the aim of augmenting [[knowledge]], resolving [[doubt]], or solving a [[problem]]. A theory of inquiry is an account of the various types of inquiry and a treatment of the ways that each type of inquiry achieves its aim. |
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| - | In a way, this is a bit facile since structure is a fundamental notion covering the whole of [[science]]; from a child's [[verbal description]] of a [[Snow|snowflake]], to the detailed [[scientific analysis]] of the properties of [[botany]], the concept of structure is an essential foundation of nearly every mode of [[inquiry]] and [[discovery]] in [[science]], [[philosophy]], and [[art]]. | + | |
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| - | I think the new approach heralded by structuralism was the move a way from [[dogmatism]], [[great man theory]] and other subjective "methods" to a more [[genre theory|genre theoretic]] approach in the [[social sciences]]. | + | |
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| - | ''[[The Raw and the Cooked]]'' (1964) and his memoirs ''[[Tristes Tropiques]]'' (1955). | + | |
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- The act of inquiring; a seeking of information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.
- Search for truth, information, or knowledge; examination of facts or principles; research; investigation; as, physical inquiries.
Inquiry or enquiry is any process that has the aim of augmenting knowledge, resolving doubt, or solving a problem. A theory of inquiry is an account of the various types of inquiry and a treatment of the ways that each type of inquiry achieves its aim.
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